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(** PLEASE MOVE POST IF THERE IS A MORE APPROPRIATE TOPIC ALREADY CREATED **)Posted by Jeff Quitney on YouTube is this film, "RB-57D Progress Report No. 2" (1956). The film includes RB-57D flight test footage, as well as structural test footage. The most interesting variety of the latter is footage of the "90% limit load proof test" on the aircraft's immense wings, which consisted of employees yanking on the wings up and down (beginning at the 2 minute 53 second mark). It is reminiscent of the "shake test" done on a boilerplate Saturn V/Apollo stack inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in October 1966 (link).YouTube - Jeff Quitney: "B-57 Canberra: 'RB-57D Progress Report No. 2' 1956 Martin Aircraft-USAF Reconnaissance Spy Plane"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NII_IBplsdU
(** PLEASE MOVE POST IF THERE IS A MORE APPROPRIATE TOPIC ALREADY CREATED **)
Posted by Jeff Quitney on YouTube is this film, "RB-57D Progress Report No. 2" (1956). The film includes RB-57D flight test footage, as well as structural test footage. The most interesting variety of the latter is footage of the "90% limit load proof test" on the aircraft's immense wings, which consisted of employees yanking on the wings up and down (beginning at the 2 minute 53 second mark). It is reminiscent of the "shake test" done on a boilerplate Saturn V/Apollo stack inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in October 1966 (link).
YouTube - Jeff Quitney: "B-57 Canberra: 'RB-57D Progress Report No. 2' 1956 Martin Aircraft-USAF Reconnaissance Spy Plane"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NII_IBplsdU
